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About the space

Six private karaoke rooms and a cocktail lounge in the Box Factory, opening late October. Not one giant room with a stage in the corner – the kind of spot where groups book their own rooms for their own parties and are still laughing about it months later.

The lounge is chill and unhurried: pre-batched cocktails, sake, wine, Oregon and Japanese whiskeys, local and imported bites. We are all-ages and family-friendly by day, 21+ in the evening, and open late on Fridays and Saturdays.

We are Gretchen and Lara, two Bend moms who decided our town needed a space like this for community, creativity, and fun. The team we are hiring now is the team that opens the doors.

Open roles

Host

$25/hr + tips · Flexible part-time

The whole guest experience, start to finish — the welcome, the room, the drinks, the goodbye, and the reset that makes the next group feel like the first.

There is no single-function job on this team. You will move between the lounge floor, the private rooms and whatever the shift needs. You and the rest of the team have freedom to establish your flow.

What you'll do

Welcome guests and check them into their private rooms
Serve food and drink to the rooms and the lounge — our cocktails are pre-batched and ready to pour, so this is hospitality, not bartending
Handle checkouts, tabs and the end of a visit, down to a real goodbye
Clean and reset rooms between bookings so every session starts fresh
Move fluidly between the lounge, the rooms, and whatever the shift asks for

What we're looking for

21 or older — Oregon requires it to serve alcohol
A warm, genuine presence; you put people at ease without trying
Comfortable switching tasks: serving a round, resetting a room, stepping behind the bar
An eye for detail — a clean room, a timely refill, a name remembered

Hosts will obtain

Oregon Food Handler Certification
OLCC Alcohol Server Permit, before your first shift

Hours

Flexible part-time hours, day and evening shifts, weekdays and weekends — including some of the latest hours in Bend. We would like some roles to grow into full-time.

When you’d start

Training starts at the beginning of October, and we open the doors late in the month. Your first shifts are training shifts, and they are paid.

Come build the good times.